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BLOOD RELATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood relative mean?
• BLOOD RELATIVE (noun)
The noun BLOOD RELATIVE has 1 sense:
1. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
Familiarity information: BLOOD RELATIVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blood relation; blood relative; cognate; sib
Hypernyms ("blood relative" is a kind of...):
Context examples
A record of a patient's background regarding health and disease events of blood relatives.
(Family medical history, NCI Thesaurus)
A record of a patient's medical background regarding the cancer and cancer-related problems of blood relatives.
(Family Cancer History, NCI Thesaurus)
Cancer aggregating among blood relatives.
(Hereditary Malignant Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of blood relatives of whom several have had cancer; the mode of aggregation may be genetic and homogeneous, as in familial polyposis of the colon; diverse as in neurofibromatosis; or due to common exposure to a carcinogenic or oncogenic agent, such as a virus.
(Cancer Family, NCI Thesaurus)
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